The One Welfare framework recognises that human wellbeing, animal welfare, and ecosystem health are deeply interconnected, requiring integrated approaches that serve all simultaneously.
The One Welfare framework provides an important conceptual bridge between animal welfare, human health, and ecological sustainability that helps build coalitions across sectors that might otherwise approach these issues separately. Recognising that stockperson wellbeing affects animal welfare, that animal welfare affects food safety and human health, and that healthy ecosystems underpin both animal and human flourishing creates a richer foundation for integrated policy than single-sector approaches. One Welfare thinking is particularly powerful in global development contexts where working animal welfare improvements directly improve human livelihoods, and where conservation efforts cannot be effective without addressing the human welfare needs that drive unsustainable wildlife exploitation.